Personality U400

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Personality U400

• Child-Rearing and Congruence

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Congruence of Self Experience

• Maintaining Congruence is daily task
• Self and Behavior/Experience must correspond
• Incongruence
• Mismatch between self and experience
• Incongruence causes Anxiety

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Controlling Anxiety Due to Incongruence

• Two Step Process
• Subception awareness of discrepant experience
  before it reaches consciousness
• Defense Process
• Distortion -- distort experience to be
  consistent with self
• Denial deny existence of incongruent experience
• Incongruence can result due to Good or Bad
  experiences

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Incongruence

• Individual Differences in Amount of Incongruence
  Experienced
• More Incongruence, less person is experiencing
  the world
• Problem for Self-Actualization
• Child-Rearing Style of Parents Impacts Childs
  level of Incongruence

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Child Rearing Styles

• Unhealthy Style
• Organismic Valuing Process
• Need for Positive Regard
• Conditional Positive Regard
• Conditions of Worth
• Frequent Experiences of Incongruence

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Child Rearing Styles, cont.

• Healthy Style
• Organismic Valuing Process
• Need for Positive Regard
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Few Conditions of Worth
• Congruence

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Psychopathology

• Severe Incongruence Between Self and Experience
• Frequent Experiences of Incongruence
• Defensive Processes Become Inoperable
• Incongruent Experiences Reach Consciousness
• Self is Shattered, Behavior Becomes Irrational
• Psychotic Break

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Therapy

• Therapist Must be Congruent
• Therapist Provides Unconditional Positive Regard
• Empathic Understanding
• Purpose Eliminate Clients Incongruence